{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love","title":"Episode 339 | The Hiring Mistake That Costs Six-Figure Firms a Year of Growth","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1388,"description":"The Hiring Mistake That Costs Six-Figure Firms a Year of Growth\n\nIn this episode of the Wealthy Woman Lawyer® Podcast, Attorney Davina Frederick names the single decision that quietly sets more six-figure law firms back by a full year than any marketing miss, pricing mistake, or strategy gap ever could.\nIt is Sunday night. You are running the mental tape of the week ahead. And somewhere in that tape, you land on her—the hire you brought on six months ago. The one you were so relieved to bring on because you were drowning.\nSix months later, you are still answering questions that should have been answered in her first week. You are redoing her work. You are telling yourself you just need to train her better—though you both know there is no time for that.\nHere is what almost no law firm owner ever realizes about that moment six months back:\nYou were not making a hiring decision.\nYou were making a rescue decision.\nAnd those two things produce completely different results—with completely different price tags.\nMost law firm owners believe they have a team problem. They have cycled through staff. Hired and re-hired the same role. Promoted someone who was not ready. Brought in someone who interviewed beautifully and struggled from day one. And concluded that good people are just hard to find.\nDavina has come to a different conclusion. And in this episode, she names exactly what is really going on, why it costs six-figure firms a full year of growth on a single hire, and the three reactive hiring patterns she sees again and again across firms, practice areas, and markets.\nEach of these patterns feels reasonable in the moment.\nEach one has its own internal logic that makes it seem like a smart move.\nAnd each one quietly installs a ceiling your firm cannot grow past—no matter how hard you work.\nIf you have ever wondered why your team keeps growing while your firm doesn’t, this is the conversation that will likely answer it.\nDavina also walks through what it looks like to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lrmaPGAHCWNx8xc5kHiVuHyaCevgy4VTFAgsROdV_hw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE0NjEvMTY3NDU5/MjI5MC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}